See 3xx discussions within rfc3261 section 16.7. The 3xx can be proxied or the proxy can recurse on the targets from the 3xx's Contact entries. When doing the recursion, the proxy is still acting as a proxy; it is just forking the request to more locations.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:sip- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Brez Borland > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 4:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Sip-implementors] Clarification of Redirect originator > > Hi all, > > If I have UAC who is sending a REGISTER request trough proxy server. > Proxy server sends this request further on to REGISTER server. > REGISTER server sends a Redirect response to the proxy server. > > Now, should proxy server send this Redirect response to UAC, or should > it try to send the REGISTER request to the address specified in > Redirect? > > The RFC3261, 8.3 Redirect servers, say: > > > When the originator of the > request receives the redirection, it will send a new request based > on > the URI(s) it has received. By propagating URIs from the core of > the > network to its edges, redirection allows for considerable network > scalability. > > > My question is, can the proxy be considered as a request originator? > Or is it strictly UAC. > > I am trying to solve this puzzle and fail to do it myself, please > gurus of sip, I will greatly appreciate your help, > > > Thank you, > > Regards, > > Brez > _______________________________________________ > Sip-implementors mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors _______________________________________________ Sip-implementors mailing list [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/sip-implementors
